#comets
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #comets from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-21 03:42 UTC3 uses by 3 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-21 03:42 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-21 03:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2088 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (36) · Lithuanian (2)
Avg boosts / post: 2.6
Top of the latest posts
Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century. 💫 More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection
Great Comet of 1744 (1898) by Agnes Giberne, from The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bdbcdc5e-ae5f-4a0a-b7f4-7d0116cc8c50 #moon #planets #space #astronomy
Orbs and rainbows circling the sun in Nuremberg, 1580 (detail). Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta https://pdimagearchive.org/images/13f7e825-e9af-47d2-b4e8-d6881c931c6e #eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #sun #protes
What “comets” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediacomets
- nounA celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body or interstellar object that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the outstreaming solar wind plasma acting upon the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei range from a few hundred m
“Comet” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#comets across platforms
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Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/comets